XII. Assert, That a Saint of God can not finally or totally fall away from the Grace of God.

XII. Assert, That a Saint of God can not finally or totally fall away from the Grace of God.

Let them Read (if they can do it) 1 John 3.9. Whosoever is born of God, His Seed remaineth in him. Ask them, whether the Seed of God, be not the Grace of God, Received ⟨p. 80⟩in Regeneration? If this can be utterly lost, ask them, How it Remaineth? Ask them, whether those that are Converted, are not also Justified? Let them know, That you think, They are; because Paul thought so, in Rom. 8.30. whom be called, them He also justified. Bu• then let them tell you, whether they that are once pardoned, are not ever so? or, turn them to Jer. 31▪ 34. I will forgive their Iniquity, and remember their sin no more. But, if once men fall into an Unconverted, they must then fall into an Unjustified State again. If you have leisure for it, make them feel the force of such Texts, as that, in John 10.28. Neither shall any pluck them out of my Hand. Ask them, whether they that are plucked out of a state of Grace, are not plucked out of our Lords Hand? And that in 1 Joh. 2.19. They went out from us▪ but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us. Ask them, whether it be not now past all doubt that none who really are among the Renewed, and Gracious People of God, can wholly go out from that Number? Recommend unto their Consideration, the precious, Heart-melting, Mediatory Prayer of our Lord Jesus, in Joh. 17.16, 20, 24. I pray that, thou shouldest keep them from the Evil; I pray for them that shall believe on me; Father I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me, where I am, that they may behold my Glory. Ask them whether